So I have come to a realization, one I had been curious of, but dismissed.

I am going to get killed.

I know @Brooski has said that to really play Twilight Struggle, you need to know what events are out there. I thought ‘sure, that makes sense’, not realizing how many ways you can use each card. So I will apologize now for any who do not have the fortune of facing me ;)

Now where was that 400 page guide, gotta download that to my phone for reading material when I… have my only uninterupted time during the day.

I’d recommend trying a game or two where you reference your hand with http://twistrug.jjt.io/#/ so that you can look at various twilightstrategy blurbs on your cards and then plan your hand prior to your first card play.

In my experience, annotated games are also very helpful, but I also enjoy reading through that sort of thing.

I’ve been trying to round up a couple of other players to round out the 24. In a couple of posts I’ve told people they will have until Tuesday evening, so I’ll close participation on this Tuesday evening.

In the meantime, I’d love to have feedback on the detailed tournament rules which I’ll post below.

Man, I’d enter, but I’ve only played it one and a half times this last Christmas, and I’d be little more than cannon fodder. Dug the game, but this is clearly a game with hidden depths. There’s a couple of old dudes on BGG who’ve played the game together like 150 times.

For seeding purposes, here is my understanding of participants in the first tournament that were eliminated in round 2 or later (and will be seeded in this tournament if participating). The number to the participant’s left is the elimination round.

If we go with the 23 person 3-game guaranteed format, there are nine first round byes. Those would go to participants in the first tournament who advanced to the third round or better, and any remaining byes would go to a random participants who made it to round 2.

Based on the above, here is the randomized, seeded list of the current 23 participants.